• Highly desirable early 'bent-window' Pre-A model fitted with rare 'sleepcoach' option • Delivered new to Porsche dealer Max Hoffman, New York, for their client, Mr Plummer • Important restoration executed by noted Porsche specialist, Giro Classico • Belgian registration certificate • Offered with copy of Porsche history Kardex Dr Ferdinand Porsche's legendary 356 was first brought to life in a small workshop in Gmünd, Austria in 1948.

Increased demand led to production shifting in 1950 to Stuttgart, where the now steel-bodied cars were assembled by Karosserie Reutter.

Initially built with a split windscreen, the styling was later refined in 1952, with a more modern one-piece "bent-window".

Indeed, no Porsche collection can be truly complete without one of these groundbreaking models which started it all.

According to the Porsche-issued Kardex certificate on file, this 356 Pre-A, Chassis no.

51999, was completed at the Zuffenhausen-based Porsche works during April of 1954 as one ...